Normally, they are administrative and technical matters.
Jakarta – The Youth and Sports Ministry has said it has actually paid off the arrears of the Indonesian Anti-Doping Company (LADI) due to the Qatar Anti-Doping Lab (ADL).
This has actually been done with the goal of releasing Indonesia from sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA), it described.
The financial obligations totaled up to US$21,220– comparable to roughly Rp300 million– and had actually accrued given that 2017, it informed.
” It was simply found by the new LADI management while examining the memorandum of understanding (MoU) in between the companies,” deputy chairman of LADI, Rheza Maulana, specified in a composed declaration gotten by Antara here on Friday.
The decision on the payment was taken throughout a coordination meeting held by the agency on Thursday with a number of stakeholders, consisting of the ministry, he stated.
Although the arrears were paid, the ministry will still examine the event to find out the accountable celebration, he asserted.
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In addition, the ministry has actually likewise requested more details on the letters and e-mails sent by WADA to LADI for resolving the agency’s pending matters as quickly as possible, he notified.
Previously, secretary general of the Indonesian Olympic Committee (KOI), Ferry J Kono, had said that according to the current investigation, there were 24 pending matters that had to be settled by LADI soon, including the arrears payment.
Kono is one of the members of the WADA Sanctions Revocation Velocity Job Force established by Youth and Sports Minister Zainudin Amali on Monday.
” Typically, they are administrative and technical matters. For this reason, we motivate LADI to solve them to obtain its compliance status as quickly as possible,” Kono said in a KOI press release issued on Thursday.
Considering that it is an urgent situation, the government has actually accepted pay the financial obligations first, while the investigation continues and LADI completes other formalities, he added.
Currently, Indonesia does not have any anti-doping lab that satisfies WADA’s requirements, therefore the country has to send its samples abroad, including to Qatar.
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